Comment by tomjen3
4 years ago
We didn't, of either.
If you have a WordPress blog, you would be surprised how much you can edit in GUIs. .NET/Delphi/etc. are still around. Heck, you can GUI edit a Swing app right now if you want.
The trouble is that GUI editing is super limited, so it is worth learning to write the code yourself. And frankly, HTML with CSS3 is not that hard to make by hand; organize div and spans and other tags around what you need, then open the page in Chromes dev tools and adjust margins etc., until it looks like what you want, then save the CSS file it generates.
This is much better than fighting with a GUI tool.
It’s better than fighting with a gui tool if you care about gui. I just need something to work and then give it to someone. I still haven’t found anything productive outside something like retool (cannot use cloud for the work I do) that works for me. Most wysiwyg tools now use drag and drop to containers that are responsive etc which I find impossible and tedious to use. I want to throw stuff on a canvas and hook it up to the backend I made, test it and then throw the code to a frontend colleague. Found nothing usable like Delphi (used it for 10 years in the 90s/00s) but for html for that yet; it’s all tedious, slow and usually incredibly buggy.
I am a senior (30 years+) software engineer and html/css really doesn’t work for me. I can do it but I find it boring and annoying.
If you just want to slap something together, why not use a GUI to edit a Swing frontend?
Or do you specifically mean an interactive HTML front-end, something I don't think you could make in DreamWaver either?